Visiting Writers Series: Chuck Stebelton and Christie Valentin-Bati

Attend a Visiting Writers Series talk featuring author Chuck Stebelton and poet/photographer Christie Valentin-Bati at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, in the Niemann Media Theater.

About Chuck Stebelton
Chuck Stebelton is author most recently of “One Hundred Patterns & Three Heuristics” (Green Gallery Press in 2023). His previous poetry collections include “An Apostle Island” (Oxeye Press, 2021), “The Platformist” (Cultural Society, 2012), and “Circulation Flowers” (Tougher Disguises, 2005). He served as literary program director at Woodland Pattern from 2005 to 2017, and returned as interim book center manager in 2023. As a Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer, he has led workshops and field trips for nonprofit organizations and conservancy groups, including Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters; Milwaukee Public Library; Woodland Pattern Book Center; Friends of Lorine Niedecker; and Lynden Sculpture Garden.

About Christie Valentin-Bati
Christie Valentin-Bati is a hybrid poet and photographer interested in the beauty and horrors hidden in the everyday. Unofficially, she’s a suburban kid from Florida, now transplanted to Chicago with too many plants to water. Her work has been commissioned by the ACLU of Ill. and she is a poet-in-residence at Chicago Poetry Center.